Volodymyr Zelenskyy has delivered a blunt message to Donald Trump after the US president dropped his demands for a ceasefire in the Ukraine war. Trump’s dramatic U-turn came after he held talks with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

At the Alaska-based summit Russian President Vladimir Putin received a red-carpet welcome from the U.S. that included a B-2 bomber fly-by and a ride in the presidential limousine, nicknamed "The Beast" with video of him laughing with Trump.

Donald Trump has said after meeting Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska that his advice to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is to “make a deal”. In an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity in Anchorage following the summit, the US president said several things had been agreed with Putin but declined to say exactly what.

In Washington on August 18, territorial concessions to Russia will be discussed during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's statement on CNN Live on August 17.

Russia already controls a fifth of Ukraine, including about three-quarters of Donetsk province, which it first entered in 2014.